It's Thursday, October 31st, 2024.

From Peach Fish Productions, It's the JIST.

I'm Mike Pesca.

So many presidential endorsements, or this year non-endorsements USA Today, LA Times, Washington Post, out of the endorsement game. Presidential endorsements and newspapers don't do much. I mean, they're a little bit of civic or institutional cohesion.

You know, then again, there are many social or cultural acts that serve as an expression of self,

an expression of identity, and that's what they've become for the opinion boards.

Whatever the specific circumstances of why Jeff Bezos didn't want to be involved in one,

I think we can all agree that there are a tradition that maybe has passed its

cell by date. They're an antiquated institution. Like there's anyone out

there who is waiting to see what the Washington Post or New York Times or any of these other newspapers say,

we know what they think it's written down every day on the opinion pages that they themselves tend to.

And the other thing about specific endorsements in a race like the presidential race

with such well-known figures as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris or before him Joe Biden

or before him Hillary Clinton.

They're never written to persuade and maybe at this late point persuasions

impossible maybe given the makeup of the electorate. Persuations impossible. I think it's more the case that the people

writing these editorials are not writing to persuade. They're writing for their own class of people to give a full copious, perhaps overly long accounting of

all the ills of one candidate and all the merits of another with maybe a to be fair graph or to to show that they as the

intellectual class are up for the challenge of discernment but they are a bit of a priest class and I do think everyone

underneath this class has moved on. Writing, arguing, persuasion, it's not done in

other media either. The other day I saw Jimmy Kimmel did

a monologue in which he said, this is for Republicans. If you're watching this and have a

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